while content validity depends on a theoretical basis for assuming if a test is assessing all domains of a certain criterion face validity relates to whether a test appears to be good measure or not
... levels is the decibel (dB) A decibel isnot an absolute measurement It isa relative measurement The decibel level indicates the relationship of one power level to another The formula for calculating ... Shanon Theorem: Mathematical guidelines have been established to determine the maximum theoretical data transfer over a channel based on the channel's bandwidth and Signal -to- Noise ratio This is ... a Signal -to- Noise ratio of 30 dB or more is satisfactory Signal -to- Noise ratio = signal level in dBm - noise level in dBm So, fora 10 dBm signal (10 mW) the noise level has tobe less than -20...
... thickness because the sheet resistance of the IAIA multilayer was mainly dependent on thickness of the Ag layers In addition, all IAIA multilayers show an amorphous structure and a very smooth surface ... plates To prevent increase of the resistance caused by the formation and propagation of cracks in the clamped IAIA region, we employed tilted Cu plates By repeated linear motion of the Cu plates, ... on the PET substrate at constant DC powers of 800 W for the Ag target and 350 W for the IZO target, an Ar flow rate of 30 sccm, a working pressure of mTorr, and a rolling speed of 0.5 m/min To...
... motif, forming γH2AX [30] γ-H2AX is predominantly mediated by an ataxia telangiectasia mutation (ATM) through continued phosphorylation proximal to DNA breakage sites which spreads to adjacent areas ... http://www.jbiomedsci.com /content/ 17/1/49 SPR assay of covalent complex formation The SPR assay was used tomeasure the formation of the DNA-TopI cleavage complex This assay differs from the gel assay by its ... interactions was successfully established Immobilization of biotinylated linear or circular DNA on the sensor surface for TopI and topII kinetic assays was performed using an SPR analysis [27-29]...
... Moreover, easier platforms such as chemilumniscence or fluorescence photodetection may be incorporated into these bioassays, thereby making them more affordable than the aforementioned existing methods ... microbial division and proliferation, monitoring "DNA synthesis" may predict microbial growth changes well before the visible manifestation of actual microbial growth in culture Second, phosphorylation ... to the G1 stage when a need for reproduction, proliferation or regeneration arises [17] Various environmental factors are known to initiate such deeper states of dormancy in microbes and eukaryotes...
... recall period Many of these participants noted that it was too difficult to remember and /or give an accurate answer over a period ofa week Discussion and conclusion Similar to previous qualitative ... gotten Ease of administration and response scale Participants generally responded positively to the format of the Sleep Quality NRS, stating that it was easy to understand and complete, and several ... were originally included to assess breathing-related sleep disorders in the general population Additionally, evaluation ofa shorter recall period and employing a 4- or 5- http://www.hqlo.com /content/ 7/1/64...
... positive negative RMS orthosis work orthosis work Figure Adaptation rates Adaptation rates Adaptation rates expressed as time in minutes to steady state for ankle angle correlation common variance, ... the orthosis and then recall that motor memory ona later date The controller used did not seem to affect this formation or recall of the motor memory The results from this study may have been altered ... condition) A linear fit of active versus passive ankle angle was calculated for each minute, and a R2 correlation value was found for each linear fit Positive and negative work allowed us to evaluate...
... recall period Many of these participants noted that it was too difficult to remember and /or give an accurate answer over a period ofa week Discussion and conclusion Similar to previous qualitative ... gotten Ease of administration and response scale Participants generally responded positively to the format of the Sleep Quality NRS, stating that it was easy to understand and complete, and several ... were originally included to assess breathing-related sleep disorders in the general population Additionally, evaluation ofa shorter recall period and employing a 4- or 5- http://www.hqlo.com /content/ 7/1/64...
... regression analysis between basal area and total leaf area of each harvested shoot, was used to calculate leaf area for each shoot in a PGP Summarized for each stool, the leaf area was averaged ... Stevens, G Avino, and B Bartoli for field assistance, W Talloen for statistical advice; and all the people involved in maintaining and developing the FACE facility We are also grateful to two anonymous ... where considered significant when the P-value of the ANOVA F -test was < 0.05 An arc-sinus transformation was used to analyse the data of proportion of dead biomass The Shapiro-Wilk statistic (proc...
... ρ (A) := min{h : hA = G}, ifAisabasisfor G, ∞, otherwise (1.2) In the case where ρ (A) < ∞, this invariant is usually referred to as the order1 of the basisA Now let us specialise to the case ... somewhat surprising fact that the range of ρn is asymptotically sparse Corollary 1.2 |{ρn (A) : A ⊆ Zn }| = n→∞ n lim (1.3) Theorem 1.1 isa negative result forbasis orders It isnot hard to explicitly ... explicitly construct certain bases Aof Zn with ρn (A) achieving various special values For instance, it was previously mentioned that n − is realizable as abasis order for every n ∈ N If n 3, we have...
... Erdem U., Land degradation in relation to urbanisation and industrialisation in the West Anataolian region of Turkey, in: Kapur S (Ed.), International Conference on Land Degradation, Cukurova University, ... considered as suitable candidates to natural reforestation of degraded areas of the Mediterranean Basin region Moreover, Carob tree isa species of increasing economic interest for industrial use of ... vegetation, it is related to the total photosynthetic surface area (PhA) Therefore, NDVI is sensitive to the dominant growth form (grass, shrubs or trees) in an area As an example, at equal vegetation...
... 44 Itoh Y, Shinya K, Kiso M, Watanabe T, Sakoda Y, Hatta M, Muramoto Y, Tamura D, Sakai-Tagawa Y, Noda T, Sakabe S, Imai M, Hatta Y, Watanabe S, Li C, Yamada S, Fujii K, Murakami S, Imai H, Kakugawa ... H, Kakugawa S, Ito M, Takano R, IwatsukiHorimoto K, Shimojima M, Horimoto T, Goto H, Takahashi K, Makino A, Ishigaki H, Nakayama M, Okamatsu M, Takahashi K, Warshauer D, Shult PA, Saito R, Suzuki ... we can partially address the uncertainty of r0 and a in the parametric assumption of the generation time That is, we adopt constant generation time (i.e delta function) as an alternative assumption,...
... information is added when analysing longevity ona lactation basis The trait of interest is in both cases the overall risk of failure Applications of survival analysis ona lactation basis can be found ... polynomial estimated separately for first and later lactations, in the same data The rationale for this adjustment was that we assumed (and this was corroborated in the data) that before day 60 ... two different baselines might be enough, one for the first lactation and one for later lactations Therefore, for LACTPL, 313 Longevity ona lactation basis three alternatives were tested: a single...
... and ammonia (adapted from Huang et al., 2010) 1.4.3 CSE regulation in vivo CSE is phosphorylated upon DNA damage, probably mediated by ATM (ataxia telangiectasia, mutated) and ATR (ATM and Rad3-related) ... Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory using a Q315 CCD detector (Area Detector Systems Corp., Poway, CA, USA) Plate-like crystals of hCSE-PLP appeared after one day and continued to ... regulation through ubiquitination and receptor endocytosis Ubiquitination isa negative feedback mechanism of RTK signalling For example, activated EGFR is rapidly cleared from the surface by covalently...
... and disambiguate different objects 10 Crawler Classifier Paper Extractor Author Extractor Product Extractor Paper Aggregator Author Aggregator Product Aggregator Scientific Web Object Warehouse ... they have different ways of constructing Therefore, these websites also provide their search tool on this data However, allof them have a database for storing all information about the apartments, ... structured information such as location, number of bedrooms, price and area A professor homepage usually contains information about his education, email, department and the university that he is in...
... prize isa job you don't really want What can you for us that someone else can't? Here you have every right, and perhaps an obligation, to toot your own horn and bea bit egotistical Talk about ... show that you would like tobea part of that team If the company places a great deal of emphasis on research and development, emphasize the fact that you want to create new things and that you ... WWW.RabElMagd.com WWW.RabElMagd.com opinion? Emphasize your interest in establishing a long-term association with the organization, and say that you assume that if you perform well in his job,...
... study confirms that the identification of the experimental range of primary consolidation that corresponds to the Terzaghi theory isof primary importance fora realistic determination of the ... The actual theoretical one-dimensional consolidation relationship between average degree of consolidation U and the time factor T obtained from the Terzaghi theory may, depending on the range of ... Deformation Rate- Deformation (DRD) Method of the 1995 Discussion on ‘Limitations of Conventional Analysis of Consolidation Settlement’ ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 514-515 Lambe,...
... total organic carbon, dissolved SiO2, inorganic cations and anions were measured as water quality indicators INFLUENCE PATTERNS OF ACID DEPOSITION Yakushima (area of 503 km2) isa tall, circular, ... remote island of Yakushima, a World Natural Heritage Area, Wat., Air & Soil Pollution, 130, 1565-1570 Nagafuchi O., H Kakimoto, S Ebise and M Ukita (2002b) Effects of forests on mountainstream water ... most part to those in other areas, the concentrations of Na+ and Cl- were higher Because the Cl- in the streamwater had an atmospheric origin and was concentrated on the canopy between rainfall...
... of shifting according to engine torque and speed in form of diagonals is adopted as basic form for both Automatic and Automated Manual transmissions Each diagonal defines the shift action point ... economy by to 8% [8] Software modifications, on the other hand are only applicable in Automatic Transmissions (AT), Automated Manual Transmissions (AMT) and Continuously Variable Transmissions (CVT), ... Manual Gearbox 1st Gear Total Ratio 2nd Gear Total Ratio 3rd Gear Total Ratio 4th Gear Total Ratio 5th Gear Total Ratio Final Drive Ratio Automatic Gearbox 1st Gear Total Ratio 2nd Gear Total Ratio...
... of laser emission as a function of the emission polarization angle relative to the long axis of nanorods axis The mechanism of the observed polarized emission might result from anisotropic gain ... electric field parallel to the nanorods axis is much larger than that perpendicular to the nanorods axis The observed polarization anisotropy is typically defined in terms of the polarization ratio F = ... curve) to the nanorod axis (the c axis of the wurtzite crystal structure) The measured polarization ratio is 0.3 (b, c) Plots of laser emission at K as a function of the emission polarization angle...